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Getting Started with Dental Hygiene Research

This guide will help you get started with research in dental hygiene.

Databases

Search the library's databases to find articles and other reference materials pertaining to dental hygiene and dentistry. To access the databases listed below, all important in dental hygiene research, click the Find Articles tab on the library homepage and select Databases A to Z. To access additional health databases, click the Find Articles tab and select Databases by Subject > Health.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
Provides articles from scholarly journals in nursing, dental hygiene and other health professions. Also indexes contents of books, conference proceedings and dissertations.

The Cochrane Library (Wiley)
Full-text articles on evidence-based medicine and interventions in health care. Oral health is one of the topics covered.

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Created by the National Library of Medicine, this database includes citations and abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and worldwide. Medicine, dentistry and health administration are among the fields covered. Provides the full text of more than 1,400 journals.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's search system for health information. Contains millions of references to articles published in biomedical and life sciences journals. Many references have links to full-text articles in PubMedCentral, a free digital archive. Most PubMed references are MEDLINE citations.

Journals and Magazines

The library has many journals and professional publications of interest to the dental hygienist. A few key titles are listed below:

For an overview of the library's print and electronic journals, see our periodicals guide.
Need a specific journal? Want to browse the library's journals by subject (Health & Biological Sciences > Dentistry)? Follow this link or go to the library homepage and click the Find Journals tab. If you have the full or partial citation of an article, try using the library's Find it! service.

Reference Resources

Want an overview of your topic? Need to check a fact or find the meaning of a word or concept? A reference resource or a textbook is often the best place to begin your research or look up specific information. Here are just a few of the many reference resources and textbooks that may be useful in your research. All are available at the City Tech library.

Finding Books and More in the Library

Use CUNY+, the library's online catalog, to find books, videos and other resources on dental hygiene and dentistry. You can begin searching right on our homepage. Here are some of the many subject headings to use in your search:

Would you prefer an ebook? Although each of the library's ebooks is included individually in CUNY+, you can also search for ebooks within a specific collection. Follow this link for a list of the library's ebook collections. Quick tip: ebrary, a collection of over 46,000 ebooks on scholarly topics, has numerous titles pertaining to dental hygiene and dentistry.

Internet Resources

The websites in this selective list will lead you to a wealth of information on dental hygiene, dentistry and oral health:

Professional Organizations

Professional organization websites often provide valuable, discipline-specific information as well as links to quality resources in the field. Here are just a few of the many professional dental organizations: